The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1887-08-26
SOME NEW LAWS.

An act to amend an act, entitled "An
act to authorize the printing and bind
ing Of the reports of the State Board
of Agriculture, and other State agricul-
tural reports"
Be St enacted, &c, That section
fourth of an act entitled Gan act to
auth orize the printing and binding of
the reports of the State Board of Agri-
culture, and other State agricultural
reports, which reads as follows "That
the State Board is hereby authorized to
publish, in pamphlet form, quarterly
reports of crop returns from correspon-
dents, epidemic or endemic diseases
among domestic animals, experiments,
analyses, ct ceterd, the same not to ex-
ceed forty-eight pages each, nor more
than one thousand numbers" be amend
ed so as to read as follows: That the
State Board is hereby authorized to
publish, in pamphlet form, quarterly
reports of not more than one hundred
and fifty pages, and not more than six
thousand copies, of which two thousand
shall be for the use of the members of
the Senate, three thousand copies for
the use of the members of the House
of Representatives, and one Thousand
copies for the use of the State Board.
An act authorizing and requiring
boards of school directors and control
lers tc pay the teachers employed in
the public schools, of the several dis
tricts, for attendance upon the sessions
Of the annual county Institutes, in their
respective counties.
SECTION l. BE 1t enacted, &C., That
all boards of school directors and boards
of controllers shall be and are hereby
authorized and required to pay the
teachers employed in the public schools,
of the several districts, within their
jurisdiction, for attendance upon the
sessions of the annual county Institutes,
in the respective counties.
SECTION 2. Compensation for insti
tute attendance shall be based on the
official reports made, to the several
boards of directors or controllers, by
the proper county, city, or borough
superintendent, who shall report the
daily attendance of teachers to the re-
spective boards by which they are en-
ployed, and s1ch compensation shall be
allowed the directors or controllers,by
and paid by the district treasurer to
the teachers entitled to receive the
same.
SECTION 8. Compensation, as herein
authorized, shall not be less than the
per diem pay for actual teaching;
Provided: That it shall not,in any case
exceed two dollars per diem, and shall
be allowed and paid to the teachers in
their respective districts for each days
attendance reported as aforesaid by the
proper superintendent And pro oided
Further, That common school month
shall consist of twenty days actual
teaching, as now required by law.
An act relative to sales by sample.
BE il enacted de-, That, in all sales
by sample, unless the parties shall
agree otherwise, there shall be an i'm
piled warranty on the part of the seller
that the goods, chattels and property
sold and to be delivered are the same
In quality as the sample shown.
An act relating to the mode of in
heriting from, through, or by, a child
or children adopted according to law,
and being supplement to an act, en-.
titled "An act relating to certain duties
OF husband and wife, and parents and
parents and children" approved the
fourth day of May, one thousand eight
hundred and fifty-fve.
BE 10 enacted, &c, That whenever
hereafter any child, adopted according
TO law, shall die iutestate and without
issue, in the distribution and division
of any personal or real estate of such
child, the adopting parents, and their
lawful heirs and kindred, shall be treat
ed and shall inherit from such adopted
child, according to the intestate laws
of this Commonwealth, the same as
though such adopted child were the
natural child and heir at law of such
adopting parents, to the exclusion of
the natural parents, kindred and heirs
at law of such adopted child, reserving
to the husband or wife of such adopted
child all his or her respective rights,
under the said intestate laws and, in
case either or both such adopting par
ents shall die iniestaie, said adopted
child shall inherit the property of said
parent or parents, the same as though
the said adopted child were the lawful
child and heir At law of said adopting |
parents; Pyooioed hosoevey, That this |
act shall only apply TO such property,
as the adopted child shall have inherit